INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES
(An International Peer-Reviewed Multi-Disciplinary Journal)
ISSN : 3139-065X
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This study analyses the price behaviour, risk, and return of five selected stocks from the Nifty 50 index over a period of five and a half years from January 2021 to June 2026. The five stocks selected are Infosys from the Information Technology sector, HDFC Bank from the Banking sector, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries from the Pharmaceutical sector, Reliance Industries from the Energy sector, and Hindustan Unilever from the FMCG sector. The study is based entirely on secondary data collected from Google Finance. Three financial tools have been used for analysis — Average Annual Return, Standard Deviation, and Sharpe Ratio. The findings show that Sun Pharma gave the highest average annual return of 21.13% and was the only stock with a positive Sharpe Ratio of 0.723, making it the best performing stock in the study. Hindustan Unilever gave a negative average return of -2.84% and recorded the lowest Sharpe Ratio of -1.372, making it the worst performing stock in terms of risk adjusted return. Four out of five stocks failed to beat the risk free rate of 6.5% on a risk adjusted basis. The study concludes that sectoral analysis is an important tool for making informed investment decisions and that risk adjusted return is a better measure of stock performance than just looking at absolute returns.